Leon Breedt wrote:
> how can i see how much memory is available to my program?
This isn't a meaningful question on a proper OS (i.e. something beyond
DOS). There could be hundreds of megabytes of virtual memory
available. If you allocate substantially more virtual memory to a
single process than there is real memory, memory access drops to the
speed of the hard drive, and the system grinds to a halt.
> i want to use this so i can see if all my routines using pointers
> clean up properly after themselves.
If you want to know how much virtual memory has been allocated to a
process, I think that you will need to dig around in the process'
/proc/<pid> directory.
Note that malloc() can allocate non-contiguous chunks of memory using
anonymous mmap(), as well as by using brk().
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Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
